Something about Love

来自英语课本课后的 Dictation 和 Cloze，作者及原文出处不详。
观点不谋而合。

Love means that I know the person I love.
I am aware of the many sides of the other person--not just the beautiful side but also the limitations. I have an awareness of the other's feelings and thoughts. I can see the other person on a deep level.

Love means that I care about the welfare of the person I love.
If I care about you, I am concerned about your growth, and I hope you will become all that you can become.

Love means trusting the person I love.
If I love you, I trust that you will accept my caring and my love and that you won't deliberately hurt me. If we trust each other, we are willing to be open to each other and reveal our true selves.

Love means having a responsibility toward the person I love.
This responsibility does not involve my doing for you what you are capable of doing for yourself; nor does it mean that I run your life for you. It does imply acknowledging that what I am and what I do affects you, so that I am directly involved in your happiness and misery. A lover does have the capacity to hurt or neglect the loved one, and in this sense I see that love involves an acceptance of some responsibility for the impact my way of being has on you.

Love means making a commitment to the person I love.
This commitment does not involve giving up our total selves to each other; nor does it imply that our relationship is necessarily permanent. It does involve a willingness to stay with each other in times of pain, uncertainty, struggle and despair, as well as in times of calm and enjoyment.